A federal judge has rescinded a federal permit for a coastal restoration project in the Atchafalaya Basin, marking a win for environmental groups who sued to block the work. Judge Brian A. Jackson of ...

Is it family vacation time? Look no further than the Atchafalaya Basin. The nation's largest river swamp has something for everyone. The Basin starts near Simmesport and runs 140 miles southward to ...

Four residents of Acadiana were appointed this week to the Governor’s Advisory Task Force on Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement. Jody P. Meche of Henderson, Robert C. “Rudy” Sparks Jr ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday created a new Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement Task Force to help the state navigate the conflicting interests within the basin, including fishers, ...

Little is new in Louisiana's annual plan for addressing the rapid filling-in of the Atchafalaya Swamp. Hampered by limited funding streams, the state's $6 million Atchafalaya Basin Program pales in ...

BAYOU PIGEON, La. (Louisiana First) — The Atchafalaya Basin puts millions of Louisiana residents at risk of losing everything when it floods, due in part to the constant buildup of sediment. The ...

In the mid-1800s, German immigrant Anton Wilbert looked on the timber-rich Atchafalaya River Basin and saw the wood he needed to make cabinets and coffins. The property, and many acquisitions after it ...

Jody Meche, whose family has fished the Atchafalaya Basin for three generations, has no philosophical objection to fossils fuels, no desire to see the oil and gas industry come to a halt. But when a ...

Swamp land. Remote, forbidding, treacherous. The Atchafalaya Swamp. It's the largest wetland in the United States. For years it was a major barrier, isolating Acadiana from much of the state. Before ...

A crash involving two 18-wheelers is blocking traffic on I-10 Westbound on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge in St. Martin Parish.